Here are a couple of CitySpace memories that we have received from students. Student, School of Community and Health Sciences After 2 years of use, it pains me to know CitySpace will be switched off. CitySpace without you I would have been lost. You got me through lectures and exams and it’s a shame you…Continue Reading CitySpace Obituary
A first ever GM City webinar was held in July and there were 13 participants online. This session consisted of the following: Introduction by me A student perspective on Inductions by Amish Patel( now ex- President of the Student Union) A City case study Sara Jones from Masters in Innovation, Creativity & Leadership An overview…Continue Reading The Young Uns: Inducting New students to the University
Matthew Eanor, former member of staff, Learning Development Centre Ah, CitySpace – such fond memories I have of you. I remember how much of my time you ate up as I tried to fit our esoteric undergrad and postgrad programme structures into your inflexible module system. I remember the annual processions of students we had…Continue Reading CitySpace Obituary: Matthew Eanor
There are so many memories of Cityspace and the early days, so here are my top ten “highlights” – some of them I have tried to bury in the depths of my memory but alas they have all come flooding back…. 1. As part of the installation City had a week of consultancy with some…Continue Reading Cityspace obituary: Susannah Quinsee
Neal and Olivia attended the Eden conference, held at University College Dublin 19-22 June, to present a paper entitled Building and Sustaining a Learning Community for Professional Educators in a Web 2.0 world. This paper, which reported on our experiences of developing and teaching the 30 credit Technology Enabled Academic Practice module on the LDC’s…Continue Reading EDEN Conference Report
PREDICT, which stands for ‘Promoting Realistic Engaging Discussions in Curriculum Teams) is a JISC funded project within the Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design Programme. The project focus is to develop a new curriculum design process that is efficient, flexible, focuses on enhancing educational development and the student experience and, is supported with responsive technology to…Continue Reading PREDICT Project
Peter Kogan, Work-based Learning Advisor, School of Informatics I’d never used a VLE before I joined City in 2004, so CitySpace was my first…VLE. I thought it was amazing in many ways, but mainly in that its accessibility and usability were infinitely superior to the SPIN (spreadsheet + Post-It Note) systems I had used in…Continue Reading CitySpace Obituary: Peter Kogan
Einav Avni , Experience Architect and former City student. Cityspace was going to be an amazing tool – one where you could find content and sources, leave comments and questions for tutors and peers, submit coursework and see marks. In reality, materials were not so easy to actually see / download and peers and tutors…Continue Reading CitySpace Obituary: Einav Avni
I posted this on my sqhq blog but thought it would make a good vignette too as it is a good example of applying something that we found out about from elsewhere and adapting in our own Masters in Academic Practice. It is very simple to do and something that you could easily try with…Continue Reading Coffee and papers activity
Olivia Fox is a Learning Development Consultant in the LDC: “Aaah CitySpace – so many memories! I started working in E-Learning Services as a Support Officer in 2005 and a large part of my role was in supporting staff and students through the CitySpace Helpdesk. I was kept busy trying to resolve staff and student…Continue Reading CitySpace Obituary: Olivia Fox